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INDEX. 



Ashkabad, town of, 171. 



Ashtira (days of mourning), 133. 



Asia Minor, 43. 



Asshurnazirpal, King, 73. 



Assouan, dam of, 77, 78. 



Assyria, 6. 



Atabeg-Azam, prime minister of Persia, 

 145. 



"Athalik Ghazi," Yakub Khan as- 

 sumes title of, 211. 



Athens, 31. 



Aulie Ata, 207. 



Avicenna, tomb of, 125, 127. 



Ayas, Bay of, 44, 89. 



Azziz Khan, 112. 



Baber, Sultan, 193, 194. 



Babylon, 5, 7, 72, 73. 



Babylonia, 6 ; agricultural possibilities 

 of, 77-79. 



Bacon, Francis, counsel of, to the 

 traveller, 12. 



Bagche, pass of, 88. 



Baghdad, 6, 58, 62, 79, 88 ; as a com- 

 mercial centre, 80-83. 



Baghdad railway. See under Rail- 

 way. 



Baghdad-Teheran trade-route, 115. 



Bahri Pasha, governor of Cilicia, 50. 



Baikal, Lake, 14, 302. 



Bain Chagan, valley of, 247, 248. 



Bairam Ali, ruins of old Merve at, 174. 



Baku, 112, and chap. xiv. 



Balakhani, oil-field of, 156, 157. 



Balfour, the Right Hon. A. J., quoted, 

 101, 372. 



Balkash, Lake, 207, 208, 225, 



Baltistan, mountains of, 229. 



Baluchistan, 167, 169. 



Barasingh stag, 226. 



Barnaul, town of, 202, 244, 267, 271 ; 

 description of, 274, 275. 



Basra, town of, 81, 82, 89. 



Beaconstield, Lord, 326. 



Beazley, C. R., quoted, 16. 



Bekovitch, Prince, murdered by the 

 Khivans, 173. 



Belgium, 18. 



Belik, river, 60, 92. 



Bell, Colonel Mark, quoted, 95 foot- 

 note. 



Beveridge, A. J., quoted, 18, 324. 



Bibi Eibat, oil-field of, 158. 



Bibi Khanum, mosque of, 197. 



Bielinski, builder of bridge over the 

 Oxus, 167. 



Biisk, town of, 245, 246, 263, 267, 



269, 271, 275. 

 Birejik, town of, 88, 92. 

 Bishop, Mrs, quoted. 111. 

 Bisitun (Behistun), 122, 123. 

 Black Sea Basin Agreement, 95. 

 Blagoveschensk, town of, 17, 296. 

 Bobaido, town of, 297. 

 Bogle, Mr, envoy of Warren Hastings 



to Tibet, 362. 

 Bokhara, 10, 12, 21, and chap. xvi. ; 



attraction of, 179 ; bazaars of, 179 ; 



citadel of, 181, 183; diseases of, 



180, 181 ; present status of, 182, 



183 ; prison of, 185-187 ; Rigistan 



of, 181, 183; trade of, 190, 191; 



treaty of, 174, 363. 

 Bosphorus, the, 20, 29-31. 

 Bostan, rock sculptures of, 116-119. 

 Boxer rising of 1900, 312. 

 Bozanti, vale of, 37. 

 Brown, Sir Thomas, quoted, 72. 

 Bulgar Dagh, 35, 37, 87, 89. 

 Bulgar Maden, silver-mine at, 38. 

 BuDJi plain, view from, 229. 

 Burns, Sir Alexander, quoted, 181, 



190. 

 Burnt column at Constantinople, 29. 

 Bush, Mr H. Fulford, quoted, 313. 

 Bu-shido, 391. 

 Byzantium, 27, 31 ; vicissitudes of, 



28. 



Cairo, the dervishes of, 11. 

 Calcutta Convention (1890), 348. 

 Camels in Asia Minor, 90 ; failure of, 



in time of war, 165. 

 Cape of Good Hope, passage round, 



16. 

 Caspian, journey across, 168. 

 Celestial Empire. See China. 

 Central Asia, 21. 



Chagan Burgaza, valley of, 247, 248. 

 Chald£ea, 6, 7, 96, 109. 

 Chaman, 175. 



Chambers, the Rev. W. , 47. 

 Chandra Das, babu, explorations of, 



in Tibet, 345 footnote, 346. 

 Chapman, General, quoted, 394. 

 Chardjui, 167, 176. 

 Chehel Duckteran, 175. 

 Chesney, railway schemes of, 85. 

 Chifte Khan, 38. 

 Chifu, town of, 310 ; Convention of 



(1876), 347. 

 China, 14, 15, 22, and chaps, xxviii. 



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